I ordered a grilled mackeral and found it had bones in it once I started eating it. It honestly ruined my desire to eat it.
That looks like the biggest pain in the butt to eat. I like whole fried fish, but usually only red snapper. It’s a lot easier to eat than that mess of bones.
Well it’s delicious, healthy, and one of the least environmentally destructive fish to eat, so give it a go.
How is that a value-add response? Like, hey, just ignore your autism for a little bit because someone stranger on the Internet else likes the taste of the fish and thinks you should just try again.
Edit: ends up it’s an out of place response and in a different context it’s a lot less problematic.
Note that their response changes the meaning of their first response entirely. Yes. Reading comprehension is hard and you clearly have a problem with it.
I meant to reply to OPs response to me saying they were unsure about trying it again. It’s just encouragement and it wasn’t (meant to be) unprompted.
I grew up in a fishing town and having to eat fish all the time, there is a technique to removing fish bones. I know there’s some guides on YouTube I’ve recommended people before. It’s a skill you can learn, if it’s worth it to you.
If you don’t want to deal with all that, your best option is to order a piece of a large fish, so it’s actually been thoroughly deboned when it was being butchered. Or if you’re cooking it yourself, learn how to debone fish before cooking it.
I’m so picky about fish I don’t eat it much anymore (plus it feels more expensive everywhere in comparison to my hometown) and I hate sitting down to eat it only to realize I need to touch the bones, whether it’s in my mouth or on the fish. When I eat fish with bones in it I start off deboning it well, then wash my hands if needed and sit down to eat it after. If I run into bones I missed I gotta wash my hands again if I touch it. I avoid eating small fish in restaurants bc this process is a hassle to do outside of home. I prefer the flavour of most small fish but it’s easier to stick to big fish like salmon in public imo.
I don’t eat a lot of whole fish, but the red mullet I had recently was a pain at first until I found the right way to pull the meat away from the spine so that it slid neatly off the bones.